Struveopsis

Struveopsis is a genus of green algae in the family Boodleaceae.

The genus was circumscribed by Willem ten Rhijne (Wilhelmus ten Rhyne) and Harold Ernest Robinson in Phytologia vol.17 (7) on pages 467-468 in 1968.

The genus name of Struveopsis is in honour of Gustav Adolph Struve (1811–1889), who was a German Apothecary and botanist. He was an apothecary in his hometown of Dresden.

Species

• Struveopsis chagoensis <small>Rhyne & H.Robinson, 1968</small>
• Struveopsis covalamensis <small>(Iyengar) P.C.Silva, 1996</small>
• Struveopsis siamensis <small>(Egerod) P.C.Silva, 1996</small>
• Struveopsis sp. SF-7-6-94-1-14

Struveopsis robusta <small>(Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Rhyne & H.Robinson, 1968</small> is now a synonym of Phyllodictyon robustum <small>(Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Leliaert & Wysor, 2008</small>

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